Once My Mother

Name: Once My Mother
Genre: Family, History, War
Released: 2013-10-01
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 8.00
Cast: Artur Urbanski, Wenanty Nosul, Karolina Porcari, Zofia Wichlacz

– Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

8.00 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 15 Minutes

Release Year:

2013

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.

Producing Country:

Ukraine, Poland, Australia

Filming Locations:

Siberia, Poland, Australia

Genre:

History, War, Family

Once My Mother (2013) - Trailer

Release Date:

01 Oct 2013

Language:

English

Directed by:

Sophia Turkiewicz

Story Written By:

Sophia Turkiewicz

Main Actors:

Artur Urbanski, Wenanty Nosul, Karolina Porcari, Zofia Wichlacz

Plot:

When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen's miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?

Awards:

6 wins & 3 nominations.

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

100%

#Gulag

#Parent Child Relationship

#Refugee

#World War Two

#Daughter